The 10 Best Kindle Fire Games

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Symphony of Eternity$2.99
I'm an RPG fiend, and the Kindle Fire has a good selection. Most of them have one flaw or another, though. The Bard's Tale and Dungeon Hunter 3 have great graphics, but huge supplementary downloads (up to 3.5GB for Bard's Tale) and Final Fantasy III costs $16, which is a lot for a mobile game. As a happy medium, let me suggest Symphony of Eternity, an old-school JRPG with a coherent plot, appealing characters, a flexible character advancement system, and only a 33MB download. You can read my full Editor's Choice review of this game here on PCMag.com.

Quell Reflect $0.99
An entrancing, soothing puzzle game, Quell Reflect takes full advantage of Amazon GameCircle with a ton of amusing little achievements along the way. This game really takes you out of your day-to-day grind, thanks to its soothing soundtrack and beautiful pastel colors, as you try to maneuver a raindrop to grab little pearls in the fewest possible turns.

Temple Run Free
A super-popular, heart-pounding twitch game, Temple Run is the king of the "endless runner" genre: your character just runs and runs and runs, and you have to flick, swipe or tilt the screen to prevent him from falling off edges or tripping over things. The game plays smoothly on all Kindle Fires and uses GameCircle for achievements and syncing. One note: because it uses a lot of tilting, this game works better on the 7-inch Kindle Fires than on the 8.9.

Triple Town Free / $3.99
It looks like one of those CityVille-like town building games, but, surprise! It's really a pretty ingeniously difficult puzzler. You build a town by matching groups of three similar objects and "evolving" them into bushes, trees, houses, and churches. You'll need to keep matching items and evolving them to maintain open space on your board. Strategy comes into play because when you run out of space, the game is over. The graphics are high-res and TripleTown uses GameCircle for achievements and cross-device syncing. The free version is essentially a turn-limited trial; to play more, you need to pay $3.99.

Where's My Water? Free / $0.99
A physics-based classic, Where's My Water has hundreds of levels of water-flowing fun as you try to direct streams of H2O into an alligator's shower, while avoiding soap and acid. The game syncs between devices using GameCircle, and graphics are beautifully HD on even the Kindle Fire 8.9.

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